Montaigne's essays in three books. . With notes and quotations. And an account of the author's life. With a short character of the author and translator, by the late Marquis of Hallifax.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Category
Books
Date
1738
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3104762
Summary
Bibliographic description
ill., plate, port. . 12mo.. Provenance: Illustrated bookplate of John Lockwood Kipling in vol. 1. - Pictorial bookplate: Ex Libris Rudyard Kipling AD 1894, in each volume. - Vol. 1: Tipped in an illustrated armorial leaf (col.) headed 'L'Aucteur au Lecteur' being a reference to the arms cited (with text in the French) on p. 335. - Inscription in ink on front free-endpaper: 'John L. Kipling / from his brother / Fred W. Macdonald / Nov: 14. 1883'. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, rebacked, red spine-labels, gold-lettered 'Montaigne / I (III)'.
Makers and roles
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) Charles Cotton (1630 - 1687) George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, FRS, MP (1633-1695).